The latest fortnightly Essential Research poll still offers nothing on voting intention, though it’s relative interesting in that it features the pollster’s monthly leadership ratings. Contrary to Newspoll, these record a weakening in Anthony Albanese’s ratings, with approval down three to 37% and disapproval up five to 34%. Scott Morrison also worsens slightly, down two on approval to 45% and up three on disapproval to 41%, and his preferred prime minister read is essentially steady at 44-28 (43-28 last month).
Further questions relate to the right to protest, including the finding that 33% would support laws flagged by Scott Morrison that “could make consumer or environment boycotts illegal”, while 39% were opposed. Fifty-eight per cent agreed the government had “the right to limit citizen protests when it disrupts business”, with 31% for disagree; but that 53% agreed that “protestors should have the right to pressure banks not to invest in companies that are building coal mines”, with 33% disagreeing.
The poll was conducted Thursday to Sunday from a sample of 1075 respondents chosen from an online panel.
Michael,
I suggest we all celebrate that fact with a minutes flatulence…
“As for punishing people for voting for ssm, I would imagine people in the bush would have voted predominately against it. ”
So Folau is saying that God missed ?? 🙂
I see Morriscum is out there tossing the pork today. Cant help but think that at the moment rather than allocating $ for roads, that will take weeks or months to come through…..They would have been better to shovel those $ out the door as a Xmas bonus to NewStart / Welfare recipients. Get it into the bottom level of the economy to people who will go out and spend, locally, right now, with the effect across the entire country, not just SA.
To repeat, there was no SSM or legalised abortion in 1908 when Dorothea Mackellar wrote ‘My Country’ and of its ‘droughts and flooding rains’. So, there goes that idea of Israel’s. Reality bites him on the bum.
From Aunty: ‘All hell is breaking loose in Hong Kong where special police forces have moved on protestors at a university.’
“ A courageous Labor supporter should take climate change into account and say no to Adani.”
Written and authorised by Scot Morrison on behalf of the Liberal Party, Sydney.
Oh, BTW – how’s the Greens review into why it lost the 2019 election going? I’m especially interested in the part dealing with the failure of the Greens to achieve much more than 10% of the popular vote at any stage since its formation 30 years ago. Which is passing strange given how shit hot both their policies and personnel are. As you say blowfly, the good folk of this fair land are yearning, just yearning for strong bold environmental policies, and yet the Greens seem to have ossified into enclaves – inner city mostly, but as you point out – also the detritus of the 60s pot movement on the north coast of NSW. This is very very strange.
First question for Morrison;
How much of this is new and/or increased spending that hasn’t been announced before or shuffled from another part of the Budget?
Is Pegasus going to regale us today with chapter and verse about all the fantastic things The Greens decided on over the weekend at their national conference?
Or will *radio silence* be maintained? 🙂
A link to Hong Kong post:
https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/riot-police-storm-hong-kong-polytechnic-university-after-all-night-siege-20191118-p53bgw.html
Alan Jones has attacked Folau for his comments on 2GB. I think the “Religious Freedom Bill” May be dead.
I am certainly hoping so. 🙂
imacca @ #1502 Monday, November 18th, 2019 – 6:27 am
I’m sure Morrison believes that the Xmas bonus will be just spent on drugs.
Even were that the case it would still boost the economy. Here’s how:-
Dolebludger buys drugs off dealer;
Dealer then launders money through casino;
Casino reports record profits and pays increased dividend to shareholders;
Shareholders spend record dividend at shops;
Dealers spend “clean money” at shops.
By spending on roads instead, the money –
Goes into pockets of spiv maaates;
Money stays in pockets of spiv maaates, or is shuffled off to Cayman Islands.
😉
My concern is for anyone who might be the recipient of blowback because of Folau’s bile. Pootfer bashing it used to be called. Bodies in rivers and thrown off cliffs. Decades of inured tolerance overturned by judgemental loons with their hands on the microphone.
guytaur @ #1509 Monday, November 18th, 2019 – 9:39 am
Good to hear guytaur. Gives me heart.
I doubt many people would give Folau a second thought. Just think what a wanker and move on.
Shorten fixation is a tacit admission of buyer’s remorse, six years of Kill Bill remorse, and six years of lib/lab same old same old remorse.
I can understand the remorse and the psychological victims of Shorten Fixation are to be pitied rather than reviled.
If only they had voted for Shorten instead of Morrison, McCormack, Hanson, Katter and Di Natale we would now have a sane, competent and inclusive prime minister.
Folau is like Hastie is like SJS is like McCormack is like Joyce.
They are all noisy Australians who serve to cement their respective bases with irrational shoutings.
Dreamworld inquest resumes in Qld this month.
https://www.courts.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/92872/OngoingInquestsMonthlyReport.pdf
Delays in coronial inquiries occasioned by criminal investigations are par for the course but this one has run in dribs and drabs which must be excruciating for the families.
Davidwh @ #1513 Monday, November 18th, 2019 – 9:49 am
But when the 9Fairfax papers make it their top story of the morning, which will reverberate throughout the day as the rest of the media run with it, most people will be confronted with it. They hopefully will think him a wanker. 🙂
C@t I’m pretty sure most of us have moved past the SSM fight. It’s just part of who we are now. Pretty well every tv show now has a SSM participants.
People like Folau should just be left alone to wallow in their self ignorance.
Andrew_Earlwood @ #1505 Monday, November 18th, 2019 – 9:33 am
So, are you saying Labor should say “yes” to Adani for political reasons? Or are you saying that Labor should not take climate change into account in its decision making?
Either way … 🙁
Itza
Yes me too. There is good news happening despite the dark times.
https://www.rte.ie/news/environment/2019/1116/1091163-africa-climate-change/
You’d think, with ScoMo and the Potato being so active against threats to our safety, they might take the disruption of climate change a little more seriously.
“The Firm” hitherto had a policy of “Never Explain; Never Complain”. Thus it comes as a shock to find that the Queen signed off on Andrew submitting himself to an interview with the BBC. If Andrew thought that the press would be kind to him, he’s got another think coming. The interview was exculpatory and lacked empathy for the alleged victim, and was roundly denounced by Britain’s media. His next interview should be with the police, where lying in it could give rise to a charge of obstruction of justice, not to mention the substantive allegations made by Victoria Roberts.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7695233/Videos-Prince-Andrew-partying-nightclubs-beautiful-young-women-French-Riviera.html
p
Your point about money is a good one, IMO.
One of the things that these days does not get much of a shout out is that Hitler borrowed heavily to generate the economic growth and jobs and rearmament that underpinned much of his support.
His difficulty was that he knew the time for paying the piper was coming up.
His way of addressing that particular blind alley was to rush into another one: military adventurism.
Which brings me to some interesting parallels between Xi and Hitler. I use ‘were’ for Hitler and all these are an ‘are’ for Xi.
Both used existing processes to gain supreme power.
Both consolidated that power by going beyond and/or bastardizing existing processes.
Both were into personality cultism.
Both were murderous.
Both used concentration camps.
Both were into heavy armament growth.
Both were populist.
Both used ‘the other’ for political purposes. Think, Jews. Think Uighers and the nasty Western capitalist roaders.
Both were heavily into nationalism and xenophobia.
Both were helped by isolationist trends in their main opponents.
Both were helped by war weariness in their opponents. France, interwar. Britain, interwar. US as a result of decades of ME wars.
Both were helped considerably by war aversion in democracies.
Both relied on economic growth to bolster their legitimacy.
Both relied on one-party state structures.
Both were helped by Leftist disarmament movements in their main opponents. (See for example the Greens’ Light Mobile Force and axiomatic criticism of ALL defence spending).
Both were into military adventurism… the Rhineland, the 11 islands, the invasion of PLF troops in Hong Kong this week.
Both were into Anschluss type thinking. Austria/Hong Kong/Taiwan.
Both were heavily into control, manipulation of media and massive propaganda.
Both were into extreme indebtedness.
Historical parallels are rarely neat and tidy but, IMO, the trends should be extremely concerning.
Davidwh @ #1519 Monday, November 18th, 2019 – 10:00 am
If only the media would do that, dwh.
Davidwh @ #1514 Monday, November 18th, 2019 – 10:00 am
Pretty soon people will be pretending to be gay to get work.
lizzie @ #1522 Monday, November 18th, 2019 – 10:04 am
They use threats against us as a tool for their reelection and a justification of increased surveillance. When there aren’t any threats, they make them up or exaggerate them, as any Victorian going out after dark well knows. And as Climate Change is apparently part of god’s will, any threats it brings are theirs to use.
I can’t believe I just wrote that, and sort of mean it. What have we come to.
Boerwar @ #1509 Monday, November 18th, 2019 – 9:52 am
michael @ #1493 Monday, November 18th, 2019 – 9:13 am
I did (at 6AM)
Hong Kong looking nasty.
Danama Papers
“I’m sure Morrison believes that the Xmas bonus will be just spent on drugs.
Even were that the case it would still boost the economy. Here’s how:-
Dolebludger buys drugs off dealer;
Dealer then launders money through casino;
Casino reports record profits and pays increased dividend to shareholders;
Shareholders spend record dividend at shops;
Dealers spend “clean money” at shops.
By spending on roads instead, the money –
Goes into pockets of spiv maaates;
Money stays in pockets of spiv maaates, or is shuffled off to Cayman Islands.”
You missed the final piece:
Money comes back to Liberal Party in large spiv maaate donations
cheers
imaXXXXXandivote @ #1531 Monday, November 18th, 2019 – 7:26 am
I did indeed miss that final piece. Thanks for completing the equation. 😉
I feel sorry for Folau. His mind and reason must have been fried from an early age.
Thanks BK for the Dawn Patrol.
From the Daily Telegraph
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/andrew-bolt-antiwhite-abc-film-a-grim-sign-of-our-intellectual-decay/news-story/0be635a2a64dcde11c9bfb3035398d47
Damn your eyes Cap’n Smollet young Jim lad in the apple barrel overhears Blind Pugh (reincarnated) planning to delivery the Black Spot to Ita by close of business 30th February next.
I haven’t read the book but I have it on my short list.
The comments on Mr. Bolt’s article are a wonder to behold and depending on one’s viewpoint are a guarantee of
A. The arrival of the latest iteration of Homo Sapien which is as has been long projects – Homo Ratbaggus.
or
B. A verification of the good sense of the genuine Ozzie larikin with a keen sense of what’s what and with a well thought out plan to get rid of that hotbed of Leftie mischief – the ABC for those who have been kept in the Dark (Emu).
or
C. Part of a clever plot to boost sales of Dark Emu.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Indigenous_Australians
Yairs mates – the ABC has a history of plotting against the right to write (or rewrite) history to suit individual commentators.
If you use Folau’s logic the dinosaurs must of been utter bastards….they got wiped out.
I can hardly bear even to read the headlines on this.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/nov/18/forced-to-build-their-own-pyres-dozens-more-aboriginal-massacres-revealed-in-killing-times-research
lizzie @ #1522 Monday, November 18th, 2019 – 10:04 am
Climate change will disproportionately impact poor people, making their lives considerably worse, if it doesn’t kill them outright.
Seems like the pentecostals may have it right after all – god really is on the side of the rich 🙁
Confessions @ #37405 Monday, November 18th, 2019 – 8:34 am
I suspect that Trump had, or is headed towards, MRIs & a CTCA looking at his modifiable vascular risks prior to 2020 and impeachment season. That would occupy more than 4 hours at Walter Reed. I wouldn’t want to be the one to tell him to give up the Coke & saturated fat diet when rage tweeting.
The Pell case details are now linked in the High Court:
http://www.hcourt.gov.au/cases/case_m112-2019
The timing for exchange of submissions etc suggests an April or May 2020 hearing
rhwombat
What seems so unfair is that a man seemingly without morals, without shame, who eats the kind of food we are warned against, can live long enough to become President.
Gladys admits to being asleep at the wheel until being woken up last week ? 🙂
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NSW bushfire devastation ‘a huge wake-up call’, says Gladys Berejiklian
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/nsw-bushfire-devastation-a-wake-up-call-says-berejiklian-20191118-p53bh3.html
poroti @ #1541 Monday, November 18th, 2019 – 11:05 am
Unbelievable, isn’t it? Still, at least she is now “woke”
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/spooked-insurers-walking-away-from-agriculture/news-story/856d59c9d8d95d2e45acb04158884a04
Having quoted, rather reluctantly, this in The Aus, I was disgusted to find their recommended companion piece.
“Fringe-dwelling Greens revel in nation’s agony”
JENNIFER ORIEL
“Oh, BTW – how’s the Greens review into why it lost the 2019 election going?”
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The Greens’ long stated main goals at the 2019 election were to get our six senators who were up for election re-elected, along with Adam Bandt in Melbourne. We achieved both those goals in no uncertain terms.
Labor’s main goal was to win government. You failed. Stop trying to blame everyone else for that failure.
Greens support in 1993: House = 196,702 (1.9%) | Senate = 263,106 (2.5%)
Greens support in 2019: House = 1,482,923 (10.40%) | Senate = 1,488,427 (10.19%)
The Greens have achieved a massive increase in their vote over the last few decades.
I’m not a Nostradamus advocate, but the current situation world-wide is, in tota, quite noticeably uneasy. There are riots happening in quite a few countries. We have despots and r-w totalitarians in quite a few countries. Even so-called liberal-democracies are shaky and full of unrest.
One could easily call Trump or Xi ‘anti-christ’ types.
Then you have all the major, unprecedented climate events.
Apocalyptic in many ways.
I’m not alarmist … no no NO! Surely you jest.
What an odd way to describe them .”spooked” . They are merely responding rationally to reality.
Morrison re-emerges from wherever he has been hiding:
Some words of wisdom from NSW Environment Minister Matt Kean. 🙂
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/cows-can-t-stop-bushfires-minister-at-odds-with-nats-20191117-p53bbn.html
If one wants to bring the deity into the bushfire situation, I think the view with the most scientific basis is that God is punishing country people for voting for the Nationals, the Liberals and One Nation, all of which are climate science deniers whose denial actually causes them to both do nothing about abating emissions and little or nothing about preparing for the consequences (as we are seeing now).
There are only 2 women amongst the 12 Liberal Federal Victorians of the HoR, or 16%.
If the Liberals don’t get rid of Kevin Andrews and find a female candidate to replace him they will further marginalise themselves in Victoria.